Title: The Flowering The Fourfold Sense - Portfolio By Darren Waterson
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Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 2007
Item ID: 5023
Darren Waterson "The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)" ed. 3/40, 2007 Suite of 13 original prints and 13 letterpress broadsides The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense), is a unique portfolio of original prints by Darren Waterston, accompanied by original texts by Tyrus Miller, exploring the senses and bodily experiences of Saint Francis of Assisi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi Hahnemuhle 310g paper Edition of 40; 18'' x 13'' paper size Contained in an exquisite handmade cloth covered clamshell portfolio case made by John DeMerritt. Mint condition, has never been opened About the artist: DARREN WATERSTON was born in California in 1965 and received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He continued his training in Germany studying painting at the Academie der Kunst in Berlin and the Fachhochschule fur Kunst in Munster. He has previously been the recipient of the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in Umbertide, Italy, where he was an artist in residence in 2005. Waterston lives and works in New York City. Waterston's paintings, watercolors and murals have been exhibited internationally and are included in many permanent collections, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, CA, the Oakland Museum of California, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, the Seattle Art Museum, WA, and the Portland Art Museum, OR.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Waterston
Darren Waterston (born 1965) is an American artist who paints in the style of Ross Bleckner and Kara Walker. Waterson was born in California in 1965, studied and received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. References Ken Johnson. "ART IN REVIEW; Darren Waterston". The New York Times, 11/5/1999. ^ About
Darren Waterston plays knowingly between beauty and kitsch, producing paintings that are lush, poetic and sly, if not as risky as they could be. His glossy, semiabstract canvases look like a kind of Symbolist chinoiserie.
Over luminous fields he distributes various sorts of mark-making -- splatters, smears, drips, linear arabesques -- and bits of Asian-style imagery and decoration. Rendered in silhouette are pagodas, pieces of swampy landscape, moths, storks and tiny human figures or mythic beings like satyrs or a multi-armed demigod. Here and there, human heads hang on strings. Mr. Waterston also floats more fully realized images of flowers or dragonflies on the surface of the picture. It all evokes a bygone world of fantasy and magic while gently mocking modern nostalgia for exotic antiquity.
Busy, dreamy and skillfully painted, Mr. Waterston's pictures are pleasing to look at.
